chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and administered the affairs of this responsible position with a high order of efficiency and with great value to the people of the United States.

In 1918 he was elected to the United States Senate from Georgia for the term beginning March 4, 1919, and was reelected in 1925 and again in 1930, in which last election he received the largest majority ever received by any candidate for the United States Senate from Georgia; his opponent carrying only one of the one hundred and sixty-one counties of the State.

It was during his service in the Senate that he rendered his most constructive and useful service, where he had the confidence, esteem, and respect of his fellow Senators on each side of the aisle. He enjoyed an intimate acquaintance with the late President Wilson and commanded his confidence and personal friendship.

He at all times championed the cause of the masses and his great heart literally pulsated in their interest.

He was perhaps the most attentive to the wants of his people and the most indefatigable and untiring worker ever in the Senate from Georgia, and there was nothing either great or small which concerned his great constituency to which he was not always ready to give his personal and intelligent attention.

In his passing the State and the entire country suffered the loss of a patriotic citizen and an intelligent and loyal public servant.

Remarks by Representative Mobley

Of Georgia

Mr. SPEAKER: During the Seventy-second Congress the ranks of the Georgia delegation have been thinned by death as have those of no other State in the Union.

The first district of Georgia in July of 1931 lost its popular and useful Representative Hon. Charles G. Edwards.

On February 4, 1932, Hon. Samuel Rutherford, who represented the sixth district, was suddenly snatched away.

Then, on April 18, 1932, the beloved senior Senator from Georgia, Hon. WILLIAM J. HARRIS, was called by death.

While Senator HARRIS was in attendance at the funeral of Mr. Rutherford I was with him for the last time. He was not feeling well at that time, but friend that he was to all the people of our great State and the pleasure he received from being among them prompted a visit from him to the business people of Forsyth while there on that occasion. In accompanying him on his visit among our people I was made to realize more than ever before why he was so greatly beloved by the people of Georgia.

He had the wonderful faculty of remembering people and names as probably no man in public life in Georgia has ever had. He had not only remembered the people themselves, but if he had ever had personal or political association with them these

facts were not forgotten. He had a personal interest in every person he represented and there has never been a man in public life in our State who was called upon for service as was Senator HARRIS. Men in all walks of life alike considered him their friend, and friend he was. The promptness and thoroughness, with which he handled matters met with the approval of his constituents and prompted them to make heavy demands upon him, to which he always cheerfully responded.

Senator HARRIS was not considered a great orator. He made no pretense in that direction. However, he was one of the most useful Members of the United States Senate. He was ever alert and awake to the problems of our State and Nation. He sponsored much corrective legislation while in the Senate and was unusually successful in his undertakings.

If he had one worthy and commendable trait that stood out and outshone his many others, it was his courage of conviction and sincerity of

purpose.

Our State will probably never be represented by as useful public servant and as honest and conscientious man as was Senator HARRIS.

TRIBUTE BY SENATOR GEORGE

Mr. MOBLEY. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my remarks in the Record, I include a tribute by Hon. Walter F. George, as follows:

It was my pleasure and privilege to serve in the United States Senate with the late Senator WILLIAM J. HARRIS

from the latter part of 1922 until his untimely death on April 18, a period of nearly ten years. I feel that I am in a position to judge of his great worth and usefulness to the Nation, the State, and to the individual citizen of Georgia. He was untiring, and his efforts were constructive and fruitful.

It is fitting that the people of Georgia should recall the long public service of Senator HARRIS, which extended over a period of twenty years, practically without interruption. After serving more than twelve years as secretary to United States Senator Alexander S. Clay, he entered the Georgia State senate in 1911 and served one term. He was chairman of the State Democratic committee in 1912 and 1913. His next important post was that of Director of the Bureau of the Census from 1913 to 1915. He also served a short time as Acting Secretary of the Department of Commerce. Under President Wilson he was chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, resigning to make the race for United States Senator in 1918, to which office he was elected and which he held until his death.

In the Senate he was keenly alive to the needs of his people and was instrumental in securing the passage of important legislation and the setting aside of many necessary appropriations to carry on worthwhile Federal activities in Georgia. Among his many important accomplishments may be enumerated appropriations to determine the cause and cure of cancer, the use of southern pine for the manufacture of paper, and the eradication of fruit and animal diseases. He was also interested in the purchasing of Georgia lands to be used as national parks. At the time his services were terminated, he was earnestly attempting to limit the immigration of Mexican labor in an effort to aid our cotton farmers. He was twice successful in securing the passage of a bill for this purpose by the Senate.

Senator HARRIS was a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Commerce, Immigration, Military Affairs, and Territories and Insular Affairs. The first

three named received most of his attention. Many monuments will remain in Georgia testifying to his activities and the success of his work in the Committees on Appropriations and Commerce.

As secretary to Senator Clay, Mr. HARRIS became familiar with the needs and desires of fellow Georgians. His experience gained there was invaluable to him in filling the position to which he was subsequently promoted and which he so adequately filled. The characteristic which endeared him to the people of our State, however, was his interest in, his love for, and his desire to assist and serve the individual, whatever his position in life. That he carried this feeling with him to the end is the greatest tribute that can be paid him.

While the loss to the Nation and State is great, it is the man in the street and on the farm who will more keenly feel his loss and regret his passing.

Georgia and Georgians may regard with pride the achievements of Senator HARRIS. On my last visit to his bedside, he spoke of humble Georgia citizens who had called upon the Senators and seemed pleased and happy when I reported the satisfactory service rendered certain of them. He died praying to get back to work.